UlyssesT
@UlyssesT@hexbear.net
- Comment on Hasbro CEO Says AI Will Become Core Part of Dungeons & Dragons 5 days ago:
At some point start introducing power creep so players want to purchase access to new classes and feats.
4th edition already pulled that grift, making each additional book full of Glowing Eyed Generic Epic People a bit more power-creeped than the last.
- Comment on Researchers build AI-powered security systems that predict criminal behavior, claim 82.8% accuracy in predicting felonies with CCTV monitoring 5 days ago:
Racists that coded their biases into it can say “it’s just the algorithm!” while the racism machine does a racism.
- Comment on Hasbro CEO Says AI Will Become Core Part of Dungeons & Dragons 5 days ago:
Expect a lot of smirking, winking, and excessive use of “squelch” sounds. sus-torment
- Comment on Researchers build AI-powered security systems that predict criminal behavior, claim 82.8% accuracy in predicting felonies with CCTV monitoring 5 days ago:
Oh boy, just like in the Minority Report treats!
- Comment on Hasbro CEO Says AI Will Become Core Part of Dungeons & Dragons 5 days ago:
- Comment on Hasbro CEO Says AI Will Become Core Part of Dungeons & Dragons 5 days ago:
They’ll probably try the “blind bag” monetization of minis again… or worse, do “blind bags” of subscription model virtual minis. cap-think
- Comment on Hasbro CEO Says AI Will Become Core Part of Dungeons & Dragons 5 days ago:
Digital art, at the least, didn’t uplift itself at the uncredited expense of the artists themselves, pushing them further into precarity.
- Comment on Hasbro CEO Says AI Will Become Core Part of Dungeons & Dragons 5 days ago:
you instead surrender the creativity to someone’s fickle whims
The corpos want entire game groups to surrender their own creativity to the diluted reconstituted slop churned out by the treat printers… and pay for that privilege.
I’m sure some will go for it, and never experience the joy of being creative themselves, or having a creative Dungeon Master for that matter. Just line up for more IP-regurgitating slop that burns down acres of forest amid all the prompt retries! brrrrrrrrrrrr
- Comment on Peloton adds $95 activation fee for used equipment 3 weeks ago:
There’s got to be a way to make use of the old stuff in a way that doesn’t pay the fees. You know, where it seems to be broken and thrown away, but it isn’t. pirate-jammin
- Comment on Microsoft will try the data-scraping Windows Recall feature again in October 4 weeks ago:
What they’re doing is likely to work because it follows the pattern of outrage, waiting out the outrage, and doing the thing that caused outrage anyway.
It’s what they want, and unless something remarkable happens, they’re going to get it. They’re competent at it, fucked up as it is.
- Comment on Microsoft will try the data-scraping Windows Recall feature again in October 4 weeks ago:
The feature will also be off by default
For now. so-far
- Comment on Nothing is requiring employees to be in the office five days a week 4 weeks ago:
BUT CREEPING ON UNDERLINGS AND HARASSING THEM porky-point
- Comment on The banks that loaned Musk $13B to buy Twitter might be having regrets 4 weeks ago:
soypoint-1 MADDEN ANALYSIS soypoint-2
- Comment on The banks that loaned Musk $13B to buy Twitter might be having regrets 4 weeks ago:
say-the-line-bart-1 Say the line, Bart!
say-the-line-bart-2 “If someone owes the bank a hundred dollars, that’s the debtor’s problem. If someone owes the bank a billion dollars, that’s the bank’s problem.”
- Comment on [Video] Chatbot interrupts Google executive during Australian Senate hearing on AI 4 weeks ago:
So much additional electricity demand, so much additional carbon pollution, all for a solution aggressively making new problems that it is supposed to solve.
- Comment on Google Pixel phones sold with security vulnerability, report finds 4 weeks ago:
How could this happen to techbro corporations that primarily make money by selling your data? cap-think
- Comment on Ex-Google CEO says successful AI startups can steal IP and hire lawyers to ‘clean up the mess’ 4 weeks ago:
These same vampires will scream bloody murder if someone pirates their software treats porky-scared
- Comment on ISPs worry that killing FCC net neutrality rules will come back to haunt them 5 weeks ago:
stairs OH NO MY DISRUPTIVE INNOVATIONS HAVE SABOTAGED MY OWN BUSINESS IN WAYS THAT I DIDNT FORSEE BECAUSE IM TOO SMART TO KNOW WHY THOSE REGULATIONS WERE THERE TO BEGIN WITH
- Comment on X’s new AI image generator will make anything from Taylor Swift in lingerie to Kamala Harris with a gun 5 weeks ago:
libertarian-alert Inevitable. libertarian-alert